Florida offensive coordinator Dan Mullen will be introduced Thursday as head football coach at Mississippi State. But it remains uncertain whether he will work the Gators' national championship game against Oklahoma on Jan. 8 in Miami.

Louisiana Tech has lost six in a row to Boise State and Bulldogs coach Derek Dooley would love nothing more than to end that streak Wednesday night in front of a national television audience on the No. 17 Broncos' own blue turf.

Derek Dooley never imagined happily ever after would take him to Ruston, La. Just 12 years after embracing his passion for football and abruptly ending his law career, he is head football coach and athletics director at Louisiana Tech, the only man on the major college level to hold both jobs.

Hawaii was the unquestioned face of Western Athletic Conference football last season.The Warriors, with Heisman Trophy candidate Colt Brennan at quarterback, rolled through the regular season without a loss the only Division I-A (Football Bowl Subdivision) team to do so. Their run ended with a 41-10 loss to Georgia in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

College football's Bowl Championship Series will maintain the same method for ranking teams at least one more year same polls, computer ratings and mathematical formula that it has used the past three seasons, officials decided Monday.